Do you think Catholics should change their wafers to Oreos so they can get more converts?

Question

I thought we was baptist, Pa.

Hush your mouth, boy. We are getting some cookies and booze.

Answer 1

Both are in vain

Answer 2

Two points.

+ Eucharistic Bread +

Just like the bread Jesus used during Passover at the Last Supper, the bread used in the Eucharist is unleavened.

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, section 320 states:

The bread for celebrating the Eucharist must be made only from wheat, must be recently baked, and, according to the ancient tradition of the Latin Church, must be unleavened.

http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/current/chapter6.shtml

+ Converts +

In 2005:
+ 80,817 adults were baptized.
+ 73,684 baptized people were received into full communion with the Catholic Church (converted from other Christian Churches)

And that is only in the United States.

http://www.usccb.org/comm/cip.shtml#toc4

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Only people that believe that Jesus Christ is present FULLY present in the Eucharist should be a Catholic. That is a belief that we as Catholics cannot waver on.
The Eucharist should be made of flour and water, period. Otherwise, it is not a valid Eucharist and every priest should know this.
To use oreos would be an abuse of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The number of Catholics to date is about 1 billion worldwide.
The Catholic Church does not want converts who would prefer oreos to the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
It is what Jesus did at his Last Supper in giving his disciples bread, saying "This is my body," and the cup, saying "This is my blood."
Justin Martyr, writing around 150a.d., gave a detailed description of the rite, and stated that "Eucharist" was the name that Christians used: "This food is called among us the Eucharist...we have been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word...is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh."

Jesus Christ is present , body, blood, soul and divinity in the Eucharist.
The sad thing about all of this is that out of the 69,000,000 American Catholics only 30% of them actually believe in the REAL PRESENCE of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Answer 4

Jesus used an unleavened wheat-based bread product at the Last Supper. Therefore, the Catholic Church uses an unleavened wheat-based bread product as well.

Oreo cookies do not constitute unleavened wheat-based bread products, thus they would not be suitable for offering at the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Besides, anyone who can be baited by an Oreo into converting is not going to make much of a convert. Those who are lead to conversion by Faith in God, and their desire to receive the Eucharist, make awesome converts.

Answer 5

The "wafers" are called Hosts. I don't think Oreos would do the trick. We would get more converts if people started listening to their inner voice more.

Answer 6

Jesus set the rules at the last Supper: pure wheat bread and pure grape wine. The RC Mass follows the Passover use of Jesus and has unleavened azyme or hosts.

Religions grow in quality and usually in numbers when they stick to their principles and apply their doctrines and ethics. The religions that "water down" their commitments soon shrivel up.

If you intended your sneer to be amusing,it failed. You are revealing your own shallowness and spite. God bless you.

Answer 7

Catholics do not use wafers, they use leaven bread. It is the papists that use wafers. As far as canon law is concerned, the use of Oreo Cookies are as valid as the use of wafers...
;-)

Answer 8

the wafers, as you call them, are used as a representative of the unlevened bread Christ used at His Last Supper.

Answer 9

I am not Catholic but your total disrespect shows you have alot of growing up to do.

Now go outside and play on the freeway little boy

Answer 10

they gave my hubby crackers when he was little.

he thought communion was snack time and was always curious as to why he only got one cracker.

he's an atheist now. had they given him more crackers, he might have stayed.